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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom Crick tell his students is the question humans must always ask about history?
(a) Who?
(b) How?
(c) Why?
(d) When?

2. What was Freddie Parr's father, Jack Parr, infamous for in the Gildsey area?
(a) His ability to smuggle liquor out of an American military base nearby.
(b) His tendency to get into fights with the local barman.
(c) His habit of stealing livestock off the river barges.
(d) His heckling of young women who worked in the fields.

3. What gives the Atkinsons the decisive advantage over the other brewers in the Gildsey area?
(a) They return rich from an exploration to the Americas.
(b) They invent the steam engine.
(c) An ancestor saves Queen Elizabeth, is knighted and given a royal commission.
(d) They grow the best malt barley for beer brewing in the area.

4. The Atkinsons are an important family in the Gildsey area for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
(a) They helped drain the marshes by buiding locks and canals.
(b) They ran a famous brewery.
(c) They represented the Gildsey district in parliament.
(d) They owned a major textile factory.

5. Who is the patron saint of Gildsey?
(a) St. Julian of Norwich.
(b) St. Gunnhilda.
(c) St. Mary.
(d) St. Gertrude of the Marshes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disaster befalls Sarah Atkinson when she is 37 years old?

2. Tom Crick mentions a similarity his father found between his home and the battlefields of World War I. What is that similarity?

3. What is the object that Dick Crick treats like it is a real person?

4. What is the landscape the novel is set in?

5. What is the term Tom Crick keeps using to refer to Mary's attitude towards the world when she was an adolescent?

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